Anil Sawhney Frics Fhea Phd Email Address

Director of the Infrastructure Sector

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Dr. Anil Sawhney has recently joined as an Associate Dean of the RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University. He will also serve as the Director and Professor of the School of Construction at RICS SBE. Previously he worked as a professor of civil engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Dr. Sawhney is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a member of the Project Management Institute. From June 2010 to June 2011 he held the Chair in Construction Project Management position at University of Technology Sydney. With a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (1988) and a Master’s degree in Building Engineering Management (1990) from India, he completed his doctoral studies in construction engineering and management at the University of Alberta, Canada in 1994. He started his academic and consulting career in the US in 1994. Professor Sawhney has a rich mix of academic, research, industry and consulting experience gathered working in India, Canada, USA, and Australia. Over the last 20 years, he has built a substantial record of academic leadership and created a strong education, research, consulting, and service program in the area of construction project management. He is well published with over 70 publications in refereed technical journals and technical conferences. Dr. Sawhney serves on the International Editorial Board of the Journal of Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems published by Taylor and Francis and the Journal of Information Technology in Construction. He performed consulting assignments for a large number of organizations including the World Bank under the International Comparison Program from 2002 to 2006. As part of this work he co-developed a spatial and temporal comparison methodology for the comparison-resistant construction sector. In 2009, he was appointed to the Bureau of Indian Standards panel on construction project management (BIS/CED29/P1).